Snails at LFS...

You can kill the snails with a 10:1 water to chlorine beach mixture.
Immerse the plant into the solution for about a minute and then rinse well
with clean water. This should rid yourself of snails w/o destorying the
plants.

However I would sneak a yoyo loach past your GF and claim that the snails
are dying of "natural causes."

grin

Fishboy


"Marcus Fox" wrote in
message ...
There are two LFS's near me that do live plants. However, on closer
inspection, the tanks holding the plants have many small snails in. I do
not
want snails in my tank, but neither do I want to add chemicals to my tank
to
get rid of them, once introduced. My girlfriend is also adverse to the
fact
that clown loaches eat snails alive. I've heard I can treat the plants
with
KMnO4, but I don't know where to get it in the UK, I guess it's sale
restricted due to it being an oxidising agent.

Marcus